Canof09 wrote:Also, does anyone know if an SA position would count towards the Doctoroff's required "summer business internship"?

I am assuming no, but can anyone confirm?

I asked about that during my interview with them last year, and regretted it immediately based upon their response (I am pretty sure that is one of the major reasons I got rejected). The Doctoroff Program is for people who want to use their JD to do something business-related instead of the run-of-the-mill lawyer stuff. Accordingly, while a position with a company's in-house legal department would count, doing an SA would pretty much defeat the purpose of participating in the program instead of just taking the classes that it offers.

Basically, there are 2 parts to this program:

First, it provides a limited number of students the opportunity to have an awesome mentor (like Doctoroff or Rubenstein); you will go to work at your mentor's company or a company within their network to gain business experience during your 1L summer.

The second part of the program is available to all law students - there will be a lot more business-related classes offered at the law school which anyone can take regardless of whether they are a "Doctoroff Scholar."

Therefore, if you want to do something strictly law-related during your summer but want to take business courses throughout the year, the feeling I got is that you will be allowed to do so, but not as an official member of this program.

mylifeis24 wrote:Welcome and congrats to the new admits! Remember to sign up for ASW!

how do you guys find the time/money to go to all these ASWs? This is getting hectic

I'm going to NYU, Columbia and UChi. Chicago and Columbia provided travel stipends which brought the costs down to only $50 for the two of them. I'm from NY, so I have family to stay with for NYU. As for time, I set my own hours for work, so I've been pushing my 40 hours to the early part of the week and traveling the latter part.